When Mary Barnum was born in October 1747, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Col. Joseph Barnum, was 14 and her mother, Keziah Mabel Hodges, was 18. She married Eleazer Benedict on 1 February 1770, in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 24 October 1774, in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 27.
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Altered form of English Barnham: habitational name from any of the places called Barnham in Suffolk and West Sussex, or Barnham Broom in Norfolk, all of which were named with the male personal name Beorn or Beorna + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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